Colony of Singapore (sgp)

Colony of Singapore

Colony of Singapore ranks 4,493rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shimane Prefecture, Volterra, and Portadown. Memorable people born in Colony of Singapore include Lee Hsien Loong, Ho Ching, and Terry Butcher. Colony of Singapore has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players. Colony of Singapore is located in Singapore.

The Colony of Singapore was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom that encompassed what is modern-day Singapore from 1946 to 1958. During this period, Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Labuan were also administered from Singapore. Singapore had previously been established as a British colony since 1824, and had been governed as part of the Straits Settlements since 1826. The colony was created when the Straits Settlements was dissolved shortly after the Japanese occupation of Singapore ended in 1945. The power of the British Government was vested in the governor of Singapore. The colony eventually gained partial internal self-governance in 1955, and lasted until the establishment of the State of Singapore in 1958, with full internal self-governance granted in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia